Abidjan, Jan 22, 2022 (AIP)- Health workers have been sanctioned for acts of embezzlement and corruption following investigations carried out in seven health establishments in Abidjan in October and November 2021 by teams of auditors from the Ministry for the Promotion of Good Governance, Capacity Building and the Fight against Corruption.
According to a revelation made Friday, January 21, 2022 in Abidjan by the general inspectorates of the Ministry for the Promotion of Good Governance, Capacity Building and the Fight against Corruption, and Health, Public Hygiene and Coverage universal disease, a paramedic from the university hospital center (CHU) of Cocody is suspended from all hospital activity for diverting patients to a private clinic. It is the same for the major of the medical hospitalization service of the general hospital of Koumassi, found guilty of parallel sale of drugs on his own account, is suspended for three months with a financial impact.
The director of the regional hospital center of Abobo was relieved of his functions for his lack of leadership which caused the diversion of hospitalization costs as well as the heads of the obstetrics gynecology services, the biology laboratory, the operating room and the welcome who were removed from their posts.
At the community training of Port-Bouët II, a doctor found guilty of abusive prescription and use of parallel circuits of laboratory examinations and misappropriation of patients is suspended for three months of activity. As for AGEFOSYN of Yopougon Niangon, the chairman of the board of directors, found guilty of overbilling, receives a warning.
Following these flagrant cases of corruption and similar offenses and upon referral to that of the Promotion of Good Governance, Capacity Building and the Fight against Corruption, the Ministry of Health, Public Hygiene and of Universal Health Coverage, which made its investigations more reliable by hearing the respondents, written requests for explanations, listening to audio recordings, video viewings and physical confrontations, stopped this decision of administrative sanctions.
The inspectors general of the two ministries have also specified that the hearings, confrontations and attestations of evidence are continuing for some of those implicated at the CHUs of Cocody and Treichville, specifying that the allegation verification operation will continue in 2022 in the other public sectors, in particular tax administration, justice, national education, transport.
Source: Agence Ivoirienne de Presse